General Timeline
This is a general timeline combining the ones from Queen of Angels, Slant, Heads and eventually, Moving Mars.
- 1997 - (Heads) Thierry tries to establish his religion.
- 2001 - (Slant Now - 51) Jack Giffey born
- 2001 - (Slant) Terrence Crest born
- 2005, March 16 (Real) - PASADENA, Calif. - By decoding signals coming from neurons, scientists at the
California Institute of Technology have confirmed that an area of the brain known as the
ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vPF) is involved in the planning stages of movement, that
instantaneous flicker of time when we contemplate moving a hand or other limb. The work has
implications for the development of a neural prosthesis, a brain-machine interface that will
give paralyzed people the ability to move and communicate simply by thinking.
- 2005, November 4 (Real) - http://www.physorg.com/news7879.html
Neuroscientists break code on sight - Now, neuroscientists in the McGovern Institute at MIT
have been able to decipher a part of the code involved in recognizing visual objects. Practically speaking,
computer algorithms used in artificial vision systems might benefit from mimicking these newly uncovered codes.
- 2006, January 12 (Real) - www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70001-0.html
"University of Michigan scientists have created the first quantum microchip, which could be a giant
stride in the race to produce a new generation of brawny, super-fast computers."
- 2009, June (Real) - http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/yu-scf062509.php Scientists create first electronic quantum processor
- 2010 - (Heads) Huang-Yi Hsu invents post-Boolean three state logic before 2010.
- Early 21st - (Slant) Nanotech changes society, scares some conservative groups to move to central US.
- 2012 - (Heads) Thierry responsible for Idaho splitting into two states, northern part called Green Idaho.
- 2017 - (QoA) Start of 5 nation project to send interstellar probe to Alpha Centari..
- 2018 - (QoA) Colonel Sir Yardly starts rule of Hispanola (?).
- 2019 - (QoA) Mary Choy born (now - 35) (2017, or she's 33)
- 2019 - (Heads) Fifteen families established on the Moon.
- 2020, July - (Slant) Secession Standoff in Idaho, Weaverite Insurrection. Giffey's parents (forest rangers) are kill by Citizen's Repossession Army in Idaho.
- 2020, Novemeber - (Slant) Citizen's Repossession Army General Birchhardt handed over to Federals by new Green Idaho governor.
- 2020-2030 - (Heads) Heads of famous and/or wealthy people frozen at death for eventual revival.
- 2025 - (QoA) Due to punishment system, Hispanola has lowest per capita crime rate in world.
- 2023 - (Slant Now - 29) Alice Gale born
- 2030 - (Heads) Hsu's work used to solve problems in quantum logic.
- 2031 - (Heads) Thierry a recluse.
- 2032 - (QoA/Slant) Raphkind president (inferred)
- 2032 - (QoA) AXIS sent on voyage to Alpha Centari.
- 2032 - (Slant Now - 20) Jonathan and Chloe married (?)
- 2033 - (Heads) Thierry dies.
- 2033 - (Slant Now - 19) Alice meets Minstrel
- 2034 - (Slant) Hundreds of civilians killed in Hispanola. Carl Black is responsible.
- 2035 - (Slant) India becomes big in Dataflow.
- 2039 - (Slant Now - 13) Mary Choy joins PD in LA
- 2042 - (QoA) Mary Choy joins PD.
- 2043 - (Slant) Pope's warning.
- 2043 - (QoA) Emanuel Goldsmith visits Yardly in Hispanola.
- 2044 - (QoA) Carol Neuman, Martin Burke break up. M Choy begins transform.
- 2044 - (Slant) Mary becomes transform (Part 1, chapter 5)
- 2045 - (QoA) Mary meets Ernest Hassida.
- 2047, Dec 20 - (QoA) Goldsmith murders 8 children
- 2047 - (Slant) M Choy marries E Hassida (inferred).
- 2047 - (Slant Now - 5) Mind Design team loses contact with Seefa Schnee
- 2047 - (Slant Now - 5) Carl Grale dies on Moon
- 2048 - (Slant) M Choy divorces E Hassida (inferred).
- 2048 - (Slant Now - 3) Mary moves to Seattle PD
- 2049, March 23 - (Slant) Column by Alexis de Tocqueville II.
- 2049 - (Slant Now - 3) Martin works on research for New Federalist Market Alliance, Aristos.
- 2049 - (Slant Now - 2) Nathan replaces Roger Atkins as Jill's chief engineer
- 2049 - (Slant Now - 2) Martin splits from Carol, moves from Southcoast to Seattle
- 2051, December - (Slant Now) Aristos create a plague that damages internal nano machines that help the therapied and transformed. Their half-baked scheme is thwarted by government agents, with some help from Mary Choy, Martin Burke and others. The plague, created by a rogue thinker (Roddy) designed by Seefa Schnee, has a side effect of enhancing creativity in those it affects. The first thinker, Jill, is damaged by contact with Roddy, but is re-started, benefitting from use of some of Roddy's routines.
- 2052 - (Slant) US Government Digiman on Dataflow Economics, 56th Revision
- 2050 - (Heads) Puerto Rico becomes fifty-first state. Logologists move in and control a majority.
- 2060 - (Heads) First QL thinker built by 2060.
- 2065 - (Heads) Roger Atkins successfully communicates with QL thinker using CAL interpreter.
- 2066 - (Heads) Roger Atkins dies.
- 2090 - (Heads) Logologists take out 1000 year lease on Io.
- 2094 - (Heads) Driven by destitution and resentment, most unbound families (on Moon) contract to Franco-Polish technological station at Copernicus.
- 2100 - (Heads) Logologists make settlement on Io, are killed in volcano eruption.
- 2133 - (Heads Now-7) - Rho and William are married.
- 2137 - (Heads Now-3) - William starts work in the Ice Pit. Mick is 19.
- 2140 - (Heads Now, approximately). Rho gets the heads transferred to the Sandoval BM for storage and reading. Rho is successful in reading some of the heads. William is successful in doing - something. Mick reveals to Fiona that they have Thierry's head. Ice Pit is attacked. William's experiment causes odd phenomena.
- 2160 - (Heads Now + 20) - Due to revelations about Thierry, Logology influence was damaged and it's spread halted and reversed.
- 2170 - (Heads Now + 30) - Mick reminiscing about what happened.
- 2171 - Events of Moving Mars start.